Libraries within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations

Citation

Freeman, M. (2006), "Libraries within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations", New Library World, Vol. 107 No. 3/4, pp. 165-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/03074800610654952

“Only connect” as the poet said and we in the LIS world know well how connection and collaboration between the various components of an education or library environment are so important. No library exists in a vacuum, and this well written collection of papers sets out to strengthen that truism. Although heavily American in content, and replete with management‐speak, this is, nevertheless, and interesting and timely book.

The centrality of the library within an academic institution is well explained by Barbara Dewey in her clear article on “The Embedded Librarian”, and Jordana Shane writes a good paper on the enabling work of an Instruction Librarian (tutor librarian?) within a university. Other interesting articles cover such areas as developing faculty/librarianship relationships; collaboration in collection management and using assessment tools in a library situation.

Well produced and clearly written, with a good index, this book would be of interest and value to LIS professionals in the academic library sector, particularly those with an outreach/user education role.